Contractor blamed by watchdog for late SPIDER arm work A NASA plan to robotically repair and refuel satellites in orbit is way behind schedule and well over budget, says NASA's Office of the Inspector General (OIG), with most of the blame falling on…
Lees meerDust blocks light from Sun-like star as far-off worlds meet Evidence of a collision between planets outside our solar system was published for the first time today.…
Lees meerFaulty backup radiator is bleeding coolant into the black The International Space Station just sprung another leak. And you can give yourself a pat on the back if your first guess at the source was the Russian Nauka module.…
Lees meerAlso on board, cubesat that dodges space debris with plasma braking technology Arianespace delivered 12 satellites into low earth orbit via a Vega rocket launch from Spaceport in French Guiana on Sunday night.…
Lees meerHey – gotta start somewhere The first two satellites for Amazon's Project Kuiper constellation have finally left Earth, riding a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V to orbit.…
Lees meerMusic sets hearts beating in lockstep, researchers find Researchers in Germany have found that classical music audience members synchronize their heart rate and breathing during the performance.…
Lees meerMonster rocket yet to trouble orbit, let alone the Red Planet Comment Elon Musk took part in an interview at the International Astronautical Congress this week and demonstrated a reality distortion field that would make even the most ardent Steve J…
Lees meerInRange will eliminate reliance on line of sight for the H3 launcher The UK Space Agency (UKSA) and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) have teamed to build an in-orbit telemetry relay service named InRange to assist Japan's latest launch rock…
Lees meer64-qubit system paired with 40-qubit simulator to get some sort of accuracy Development of Japan's first superconducting quantum computer is complete, Fujitsu and the country's scientific research institute RIKEN announced this week.…
Lees meerDirty deed, done in deep space NASA is running late in its efforts to share 4.5-billion-year-old dust samples with researchers, blaming the delay on its OSIRIS-REx spacecraft returning more material than expected. …
Lees meerSimulation milestone coincides with NASA's 65th birthday – will it manage the real thing before its centenary? NASA has celebrated its 65th birthday by marking 100 days of its first attempt to simulate a yearlong mission Mars mission.…
Lees meerNASA will run out of RS-25s to drop into the ocean unless the production line restarts A test run of the engines powering NASA's Moon rocket is due to kick off this week, an essential milestone since the Space Shuttle cast-offs will need to be repla…
Lees meerSimulation milestone coincides with NASA's 65th birthday – will it manage the real thing before its centenary? NASA has celebrated its 65th birthday by marking 100 days of its first attempt to simulate a yearlong mission Mars mission.…
Lees meerWhere are the bolts of light? Why are the low-frequency radio waves lightning makes going backwards? Contrary to a decades-old hypothesis, there may be very little lightning in the atmosphere of Venus – or even none at all – according to researchers…
Lees meerWith more constellations on the horizon, scientists call for better approval of launches A recently launched 5G satellite periodically becomes the brightest object in the night sky, alarming astronomers who reckon it sometimes becomes hundreds of ti…
Lees meerEurolauncher won't fly again until 2024 as it awaits another redesign The Vega-C rocket will not return to launch until late 2024 because a test on a redesigned nozzle failed, the European Space Agency revealed on Monday.…
Lees meerOne (very) small leap for humanity's future in space NASA has announced plans to fund eight short-term research projects aimed at improving our understanding of space's effects on the human body, but all eight will have to share just $1.5 million in…
Lees meerOne (very) small leap for humanity's future in space NASA has announced plans to fund eight short-term research projects aimed at improving our understanding of space's effects on the human body, but all eight will have to share just $1.5 million in…
Lees meerGood news: More science. Bad news: Somebody has to pay for it NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, which performed a flyby of Pluto in 2015, is being granted a mission extension through 2029.…
Lees meerIt's about time! Set your watches! Scientists have set the clock ticking for the development of a new generation of timepieces with accuracy of up to 1 second in 300 billion years or about 22 times the age of the universe.…
Lees meerIt's about time! Set your watches! Scientists have set the clock ticking for the development of a new generation of timepieces with accuracy of up to 1 second in 300 billion years or about 22 times the age of the universe.…
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